A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Chinese exile Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for a $1 billion fraud that used his Himalaya Exchange crypto platform and political dissident branding to solicit victims worldwide.
Trezor Academy's "Seeding Bitcoin" documentary charts how Bitcoin functions as everyday money across Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa recorded $205B in on-chain value in 2025, up 52%. Trezor's shop now accepts donations for Global South Bitcoin education.
The CoinDCX H1 2026 report shows Indian crypto investors traded ₹14,664 crore in the first half of the year while Bitcoin fell roughly 51%. Assets under custody rose across every generation, led by Gen Z at 63%, and Bitcoin's share of traded volume climbed to 22.43%.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT says an X user who asked him to unfreeze 5.73 BTC at Changelly instead exposed an alleged Indian scam ring tied to over $1M in thefts targeting Americans, including elderly victims, since 2025. The account was later deleted.
From Morpho's $175M raise to Digital Asset's $355M Canton round, web3 funding in early June 2026 chased onchain infrastructure for institutions. We rank the five biggest crypto funding rounds from June 1 to June 13, with leads, participants, and the risks attached to each.
Strategy bought 1,550 Bitcoin for about $101 million on Monday, its first purchase below cost basis, days after a $2.5 million sale that helped tip Bitcoin into a 14% crash. The weekend rebound to $63,700 wiped out $504 million in short positions as an on-chain metric neared past bottom levels.
Trezor and Tropic Square have disclosed a TROPIC01 chip vulnerability in the Safe 7 hardware wallet, uncovered during an independent Ledger Donjon audit using a laser fault injection attack. The flaw affects one of three security layers, and Trezor says user funds remain safe.
Bitcoin's price crash pulled BTC below $65,000 on Tuesday, a two-month low, after Strategy sold Bitcoin for the first time in nearly four years. The selloff sparked $1.23 billion in liquidations, while Peter Schiff asked if the drop is a "harbinger" of trouble in risk assets.
Vecontra is a unified crypto research platform built by two engineering students to spare India's retail traders the cost and chaos of juggling five tools at once. Co-founder Prince Kumar on the pivot from a college price tracker, the guardrails on its Vicco AI, and the year ahead.
The Trezor Safe 7 just won a 2026 Red Dot Award for Product Design. Head of Hardware Adam Budínský talks to CIM about the device's open, auditable, secure element, the push to end blind signing on Ethereum, the touchscreen threat model, and why self-custody adoption still lags in India.
LayerZero issued a public apology on Friday for the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, admitting its single-verifier setup should never have secured high-value cross-chain transactions. The reversal follows three weeks of blame-shifting and comes as Kelp migrates rsETH to Chainlink's CCIP.
93% of GameFi projects are dead, token values have collapsed 95% from 2022 peaks, and studio funding fell 93% by 2025 — Caladan's report confirms Web3 gaming burned $15 billion chasing speculators while gamers never arrived.
KelpDAO's 1-of-1 bridge verifier was exploited for $292M on April 18. Aave lost $9B in 48 hours. $5B in USDT/USDC locked. $13B DeFi TVL gone. Justin Sun-linked wallet exited $274M in 21 minutes.
Google Quantum AI researchers showed in March 2026 that breaking Bitcoin and Ethereum's ECC encryption requires roughly 20 times fewer computing resources than earlier estimates, potentially exposing 6.9 million BTC in wallets with visible public keys.
The crypto industry is not ignorant of its darker dimensions. Money laundering, terrorism financing, cybercrime, the limits of sovereign regulation,…
The Kingdom of Bhutan has transferred $72.3 million in Bitcoin, continuing to reduce its national crypto reserves. With holdings dropping from a peak of 13,295 BTC down to roughly 4,400 BTC, market watchers are questioning the future of the nation's sovereign digital asset strategy.
The acquisition, disclosed by the company last week, represents Bitmine’s largest ether purchase of the year in token terms. Based on current market prices, the transaction was valued at approximately $140 million.
India has launched a Virtual Asset Lab under the Financial Intelligence Unit to track offshore crypto exchanges targeting Indian users without regulatory approval. The initiative uses AI monitoring and blockchain analytics to detect non compliant platforms and strengthen enforcement of crypto regulations.
Dogecoin was built as a joke. Jordan Jefferson is betting it becomes the most accessible financial platform in crypto. The CEO of DogeOS spoke to us at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 about building real utility on the world's favourite meme coin, and why the punchline was always the point.
Jito Foundation's Head of APAC Marc Liew on why crypto's biggest barrier isn't regulation or technology, it's jargon. From JitoSOL's yield model to APAC's institutional shift, here's what the next chapter of mainstream adoption actually looks like.
The three companies join previously announced node operators, including Google Cloud, Blockdaemon, Shielded Technologies, and AlphaTON Capital, which is running a node on behalf of Telegram.
In an exclusive interview from Consensus Hong Kong, BridgePort CEO Nirup Ramalingam breaks down the critical shift toward off-exchange settlement, mitigating counterparty risks, and building the essential institutional crypto infrastructure needed to mature the market.
The acquisition brings together businesses spanning media, asset management, and advisory services, forming what Nakamoto describes as an integrated Bitcoin operating platform.
The proposal, drafted by the Vietnam Ministry of Finance, would impose a flat 0.1% personal income tax on every cryptocurrency transfer executed by individual traders through licensed platforms.
